Tech Race Summit Announces the Former Google Executive as First Keynote Speaker

Tech Race Summit organised by SOFTSWISS has announced Andrey Doronichev as the first keynote speaker for its debut event in Warsaw on 10 September 2026. The former Google executive and founder of AI startup Optic will join a cross-industry conference focused on how major technology companies are preparing for the next wave of change in AI, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and digital product development, and what these shifts will mean for the future of the IT industry.

Doronichev spent more than a decade at Google, where he helped build products used by billions of people worldwide. He played a key role in the growth of YouTube Mobile and later led virtual reality initiatives, including Google Cardboard and Daydream. Today, he is the founder of Optic, an AI company focused on drug discovery and the use of large-scale computing in pharmaceutical research.

At Tech Race Summit, Doronichev will deliver a keynote session focused on how AI is changing industries and work. His participation reflects the summit’s aim to bring leaders into open discussions about the technical and business decisions influenced by AI adoption.

Sergey Kastukevich, Chief Technology Officer at SOFTSWISS, comments: “Tech Race Summit was created to bring together people solving difficult technology problems and to explore what the future of technology holds. Andrey Doronichev has worked on products used daily by billions of people and has seen several major shifts in consumer technology from inside the industry. His perspective fits the kind of practical and forward-looking conversations we want this event to create.”

Tech Race Summit is organised by SOFTSWISS and gathers engineers, technology executives, infrastructure specialists, and product teams to discuss how companies respond to growing technical complexity, cybersecurity challenges, and the rapid adoption of AI across business operations and consumer products.

The event will feature three conference stages:

• Vision Track – keynotes and discussions about AI, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and technology strategy
• Solution Track – technical sessions and case studies from engineers and architects working on modern digital systems
• Experiment Track – practical demonstrations, emerging tools, and unconventional engineering approaches

The organisers expect around 1,000 attendees from across the technology and business sectors. The programme already includes speakers and contributors from companies such as AWS, Oracle, Cloudflare, Google, Fastly, Gcore, ScyllaDB and others.

Tech Race Summit will take place in Warsaw on 10 September 2026. Early bird tickets are available now through the event website.